Remember in the movie “Caddyshack”, where the groundskeeper is talking to Bill Murray’s character, Carl Spackler?
Sandy: Carl I want you to kill all the gophers on the golf course
Carl Spackler: Correct me if I’m wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers they’ll lock me up and throw away the key.
Sandy: Not golfers, you great fool. Gophers. The little brown, furry rodents.
Carl Spackler: We can do that. We don’t even need a reason.
So, Spackler gets obsessed with killing Mr. Gopher. Havoc and destruction ensue until finally Murray resorts to using explosives in his pursuit.
Check this out; from Reuters.
A war on gophers waged by two Canadian men went awry this weekend when a device used to blast the rodents in their holes sparked a massive grass fire in a rural area near Calgary, Alberta, causing more than C$200,000 ($197,000) in damages.
Despite a ban on fires in the tinder-dry area of Springbank, just northeast of Calgary’s city limits, two men went into a field to kill gophers using a device called a Rodenator, fire officials said on Monday.
The Rodenator! Great branding. Couldn’t resist this from rodenator.com.
The Rodenator ProTM uses a controlled mixture of propane and oxygen that is injected into the rodent’s burrow. A built-in, self contained ignition system then ignites the mixture, creating an underground shockwave or concussion that instantly eliminates the rodent and collapses the tunnel system. The Rodenator Pro is so fast and so effective - it takes care of lawn digging pest problems virtually instantly!
Rodenator Advantages
• Instant Results
• Effective
• Exciting to use
• No Poisons on Site
• Low Cost Operation
• Great conversation starter
• Humane
• New Technology
• Easy to Use
Great conversation starter and exciting to use indeed!
How did Ron Popeil miss this one?
Again from the Reuters piece.
“We had a couple of acreage owners out taking care of their rodent problem with this device,” said Captain Joe Garssi of the municipal district of Rocky View’s fire department.
“They did a few holes successfully and then hit a hole that didn’t go in very far. When they filled it with propane it over-filled the hole…and when they ignited it (fire) flashed out of the hole into the grass beside them.”
The resulting grass fire scorched about 160 acres of surrounding property and destroyed a number of outbuildings. No homes were damaged.
“The way I look at it, it’s ‘humans eight, gophers one’.” Garssi said, as the two men destroyed about eight of the rodents before sparking the blaze.
Humans 8-Gophers 1? Lets see, 8 gophers bit the dust so, I get the 8. But, 160 acres, $197,000 in damages and two bumbling gopher hunters. What does he mean by humans one? Surely Mr. Garssi doesn’t mean the Rodenator. Not the Rodenator.
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Tags: Bill Murray, Captain Joe Garssi, conversation starter, Gophers, movie caddyshack, Rodenator
pat wrote,
Shoot! I’ve been getting emails for the Rodenator, I thought it was something else. ‘Been putting the accent on the wrong syllable, sent them all to SPAM.
The Rodenator, yes?
It’s eight, 8 up Pat
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